At 12:10 PM 6/14/01 -0500 Adam C. Lipscomb wrote:
>Not just "the courts" but the Supreme Court, the group that makes the final
>pronouncements on whether laws are Constitutional or not. If you're basing
>your argument upon the Constitution (which is what the title of this post
>indicates), you've *got* to take into account the opinions of the Supreme
>Court. Anything else is just willful ignorance.
True, of course, this is the same Supreme Court that:
a) came up with "separate but equal"
b) willfullly ignores the first words of the 1st Amendment "Congress shall
pass no Law"
c) discovered 150+ years later a "right to privacy" in the "penumbra" of
the Constitution
d) wrote the decision for Bush vs. Gore
In other words, the Supreme Court seems well-known for fudging thing quite
a bit, especially on very controversial issues.
JDG
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